While speaking to a crowd in Canton, Ohio, earlier in the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump said, “It used to be cars were made in Flint, and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now, the cars are made in Mexico, and you can’t drink the water in Flint!”
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Oxford Press: Why there can be no increase in all brain cancers tied with cell phone use
Several widely circulated opinion pieces assert that because there is no detectable increase in all types of brain cancers in Australia in the past three decades, cell phones do not have any impact on the disease. There are three basic reasons why this conclusion is...
Oxford Press: Show me the bodies: A monumental public policy failure
In the 21st century, “show-me-the-bodies” seems a cruel and outdated foundation for public policy. Yet history is littered with examples—like tobacco and asbestos—where only after the death toll mounts is the price of inaction finally understood to exceed that of...
Oxford Press: Potential dangers of glyphosate weed killers
What do Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Brazil, and India have in common? They have banned the use of Roundup—the most heavily applied herbicide in the United States. Why have these nations acted against what is the most heavily used herbicide in the...
Oxford Press: Cancer is No Moonshot
A tired old elephant hunched in the room as President Obama announced the launch of a new moonshot against cancer during his State of the Union address a month ago. We’ve heard that promise before. On 23 December 1971, when President Nixon first declared a national...
Oxford Press: Lead poisoning of Flint, Michigan—penny wise, pound foolish, and criminal by EHT’s Dr. Davis and Dr. Morris
The tragedy of children poisoned by lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan is not an isolated incident. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 12 of the 27 states that carried out any lead testing in 2014 had higher rates of lead poisoning...
Planet JH: New study shows cell phones cook your brain
By Devra Davis, Ph.D. on March 19, 2013 A recent study from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is sending shockwaves around the world. Kettering radiation physicist David Gultekin, working with Bell Labs electrical engineer Lothar Moeller, reported this month that...
The FCC Can Hear Us Now
The Washington Post published “Cellphone-safety advocate hopes Congress forces the FCC to update its regulations.”
One Cancer Survivor Believes His Cell Phone Dialed A Way To His Brain Tumor
Maine plumber Stuart Cobb, 35, considers himself an ordinary, hardworking fellow. However, over the past 15 year he has been a slave to one big “addiction”… his cell phone. At age 19, Stuart bought his first cell phone, which he reports was “so expensive I had to take...